See http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html for info on using the CMS directly.
Ralph
On May 31, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Ralph Goers wrote:
> My understanding is if you want to use their system we can use their web UI to edit stuff and we don't really have to do anything. Whatever you do, you can just use the area I already created which is documented in the Jira issue.
>
> Ralph
>
> On May 30, 2012, at 11:48 PM, Ivan Habunek wrote:
>
>> Agreed about Perl. Not a fan either. Also I think speed will not be a
>> factor for the logging web for a long time, maybe never.
>>
>> I have never used Quercus so I'm not an expert. There is a maven
>> plugin [1]. I'm not sure if you need to run the Resin server to make
>> it work. However, this would make the build more complicated. I mean,
>> running PHP in Java? :) I would prefer to keep it simple.
>>
>> I see 3 possiblities:
>> a) Start using their supported Django-like templates [2], this
>> probably would not be that much work if we can survive a bit of Perl.
>> b) Wait for infra to setup PHP (they did not say thew would not do it,
>> just that "It'll take time"). ETA unknown.
>> c) Switch back to building the logging web manually and commiting it
>> to svn as originally planned.
>>
>> If you wish I can attempt to make the first option work. This might be
>> the simplest solution since it would eliminate the need to pack Twig
>> and Textile with the project.
>>
>> I just hope their Textile support (version 0.2) is any good. :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ivan
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.caucho.com/Maven2
>> [2] http://www.dotiac.com/cgi-bin/index.pl
>>
>> On 31 May 2012 07:38, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>> Infra has updated https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4699 and
>>> basically said they aren't going to install PHP anytime soon and that we
>>> should convert to using something Perl-based. I've gotta say that I used
>>> Perl for a while many years ago in my day job and absolutely hated it. I
>>> would only work on the tool periodically and found that every time I came
>>> back to work on it I had to re-learn Perl all over again. So basically, I'd
>>> prefer to find other options. Since they support Maven based builds they
>>> obviously support Java so is it possible we could use Quercus instead of
>>> native PHP? I know very little about PHP to know if this makes a lot of
>>> sense or not.
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 29, 2012, at 11:06 PM, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>>
>>> I updated the Jira issue with the 4 items Daniel told me needed to be done.
>>> I did the first 3 and now I think we are just waiting for Infra to finish.
>>> If one of you would like to ping them that would be fine with me as I'm not
>>> going to be able to do much in the next 24 hrs.
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> On May 27, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>>
>>> I've checked in what Ivan did to
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/site/branches/cms/trunk as Herve
>>> suggested. I found 1 bug in build.php and fixed that and added a
>>> requirement to specify the output directory on the command line. I also
>>> moved the content and templates to the appropriate directories.
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> On May 23, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks. Please let me know when we are at the point where I can try to add
>>> Log4j 2 on to the site.
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> On May 23, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Ivan Habunek wrote:
>>>
>>> I have given infra the requirements. We're waiting for them to set it up.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>> On 23 May 2012 17:57, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ivan,
>>>>
>>>> Were you able to get a test site to work yet?
>>>>
>>>> Ralph
>>>>
>>>> On May 22, 2012, at 5:52 AM, Ivan Habunek wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, sorry I haven't been more involved in the discussion. I've been to
>>>> the phpday conference in Verona, and haven't had time to catch up.
>>>>
>>>> I posted a comment to the INFRA ticket with the required information. I'll
>>>> keep in the loop from now on to answer any other questions.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 22 May 2012 13:40, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ivan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel has updated the Jira and asked "Can you provide a list of
>>>>> dependencies of your site's build process? (as port names --
>>>>> see www.freshports.org -- for those deps that are in ports)"
>>>>>
>>>>> Since you have actually built the test site could you possibly help with
>>>>> this? The issue is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4699.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 2, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Ivan Habunek wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was away for a bit so I didn't comment earlier.
>>>>>
>>>>> My idea is to generate the site using Twig [1], a nice PHP templating
>>>>> engine, in combination with Textile markup [2], which is much more versatile
>>>>> than most other common markup languages (such as markdown, apt, ...).
>>>>>
>>>>> I have already converted the logging web site. The code can be found
>>>>> here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/site/branches/experimental-twig-textile/
>>>>>
>>>>> And I have deployed the generated web for demo here:
>>>>> http://bezdomni.net/logging/
>>>>>
>>>>> This idea is obviously not compatible with the Apache CMS solution.
>>>>> Frankly, I would prefer this solution to the CMS since, from what I have
>>>>> seen, the CMS is quite a pain to use.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Ivan
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
>>>>> [2] http://textile.sitemonks.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2 May 2012 10:44, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Ralph Goers
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What i thought was, why not to clean it up? Your proposed solutions
>>>>>>> seem to be the cleanest way and updating everything just when we need
>>>>>>> an update to the main site feels somehow wrong
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Joe has now proposed using the CMS for the main Logging web site along
>>>>>>> with expaths.txt + svnpubsub for each sub-project. Each sub-project
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> then use svn externals so they could be independently managed. This
>>>>>>> sounds
>>>>>>> perfect to me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK I understand svn externals is like "symlinks for svn". Sounds ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am a bit concerned on the CMS. Ivan has put much effort in the website
>>>>>> design:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/site/branches/experimental-redesign/src/site/pages/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will ask infra (on the ticket) if it is possible to either use that
>>>>>> design for the CMS or if we can bypass the CMS feature for this one
>>>>>> too...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Christian
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> http://www.grobmeier.de
>>>>>> https://www.timeandbill.de
>>>>>
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